Background
He was born in Wales in 1894 (not to be confused with the artist and writer Percy Wyndham Lewis). He is also known as D. B. Wyndham Lewis.
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The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (New York Review Books Classics)
(The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology wri...)
The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter . . . On the contrary . . . Bad Verse has its canons, like Good Verse. There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the constant preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefiy good Bad Verse." Here indeed one finds the best of the worst of the greatest poets of the English language, masterpieces of the maladroit by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats, among many others, together with an index ("Maiden, feathered, uncontrolled appetites of, 59;. . . Manure, adjudged a fit subject for the Muse, 91") that is itself an inspired work of folly.
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Francois Villon: A Documented Survey
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Black cloth over boards, gilt letters; fold-out frontispiece; watermarked laid paper.
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Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis
Edit ProfileCareer
He planned a law career until his studies were interrupted by World War I service in France. After the war he became a columnist on the London Daily Express and later wrote weekly pieces in a light vein for the Daily Mail and the News Chronicle. As historian and biographer he published scholarly studies of Ronsard, Louis XI of France, Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, Francois Villon, and James Boswell. Among his principal works are A London Farrago (1922), At the Green Goose (1923), At the Sign of the Blue Moon (1924), At the Blue Moon Again (1925), On Straw and Other Conceits (1927), The Stuffed Owl (an anthology, 1930), Take It to Bed (1944), Four Favourites (1948), and The Shadow of Cervantes (1962).
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The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (New York Review Books Classics)
(The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology wri...)
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Francois Villon: A Documented Survey
(Black cloth over boards, gilt letters; fold-out frontispi...)
- Four favourites
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The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (New York Review Books Classics)
Religion
He dropped his first name and replaced it with "Dominic" following his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1921.
Connections
On 29 October 1918, Lewis married Winifred Mary (Jane) Holland, with whom he had one daughter. The couple divorced in 1926 and in July 1933 Lewis married Dorothy Anne Robertson, with whom he had two sons.
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Roman Catholic